Ms. Granier Calles was summoned to appear before the Fourth
District Court in the Las Gaviotas district of Villahermosa, Tabasco at 10:00
on Friday, February 1st to explain the origin of the money.

It is uncertain whether or not Ms. Granier Calles made her appointment.
Court Officials said she had not arrived; however, there were people who
claimed to have seen a white Suburban entering the rear of the building, in the
parking lot reserved for judges. These witnesses claim to have seen Ms. Granier
Calles enter the Fourth District Court dressed in an orange blouse and jeans,
and accompanied by two lawyers.

A few days previous the Ecological Association St. Thomas (Asociación Ecológica Santo Tomás),
using information obtained from the Ministry
of Administration and Finance (Secretaría de Administración y Finanzas)
revealed that “Quinta Grijalva” – the official residence for the governor of
Tabasco – cost over a million pesos a month to run due to inflated invoices and
wasteful spending.

However, in 2008 the governor and his family recorded only
30,000 pesos in spending, and during 2009 38,000 pesos. In 2010, the amount was
35,000 pesos.

“We are talking about, on a monthly basis, the governor’s
family going through a million pesos,” said the association.

There has been an active movement in Tabasco to convert Quinta Grijalva
into a public facility, such as a museum, due to the perception that it is
too luxurious for the governor. One option is for the residence and grounds to
become an ecological park – the reason perhaps why spending inconsistencies
with regard to the residence were exposed by the Ecological Association.

Even so, direct fraud of government accounts related to
household spending cannot account for one individual amassing almost a quarter
of a billion dollars.

The Mexican weekly publication Proceso has also documented
that the former governor’s son, Fabián Granier Calles, owns a luxury condo in
an exclusive area of Miami, Florida. The son is alleged to have millions of
pesos in accounts in Cancun.

Ms. Granier Calles may have requested the protection of the
federal courts in order to avoid arrest during the judicial proceedings. Known
as an amparo, this functions something
like a bail bond and is frequently employed by the wealthy in Mexico to avoid
incarceration.

2 comments:

I really don´t understand how is possible that the dauhter of the Tabasco´s governor has had the talent to increase her savings till touch that crazy amount...But making not my self a fool, when it´s more than clear that again there´r happening a kind of bad practices whatever they did, in the public administration, as a citizen of a foot I only have the opportunity not 4 insult or send bad sayings to that person, but 4 make a calling to the New President EPN to tell him that it´s time to reorder the development of those which nowadays are members of his cabinet, the impunity & corruption shoould end other wise he´ll be not gloryfied or honored after his period ends... "Los Mexicanos Estamos Hartos de Este Lastre". "NO ROBEN, POR ESO TRABAJO,PARA DARLES LO QUE NECESITEN" words of my childhood I heard from my father, a kind of person that has not a little of the hungry of those that only seek the advantage of robberies, ba bay! Nice to talk.

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